Beast Psygnosis dev disks

[ccovell]

Hi, folks.  I recently found out that some former Psygnosis staff have made a group on Facebook, and in addition to sharing old tales, one of them has released (so far) 40 floppy disk dumps from disks used in the Early '90s at Psy.

Link: Facebook link

The disk images are a mix of PC-DOS and Amiga formats, with one FM-Towns image in there as well.  Most of the disks contain Deluxe Paint IFF pictures and animations, with test artwork mainly from the FM-Towns version of Shadow of the Beast, with some Beast 2 / 3 stuff in there as well.  (One disk also has the Lynx version of Beast with the Epyx Amiga realtime debugger software too.)

A good amount of the PC-Engine version's artwork is in there as well (seen in some of the DOS IMGs).  It's interesting to see that the FM-Towns version was the lead CD version of Beast, with the PCE version tailing after it.

Some example images:
(PCE version)

were the following ever used in the game?




And here are some animations showing an in-progress cutscene

The original animations used in the FM-Towns and PCE-CD versions are in their original IFF ANIM format:


Very cool to explore if you're handy with disk imaging software and a hex editor!

[NecroPhile]

'Tis neat that they found those squirreled away and that they still work.

[esteban]

Goddamn, Covell! This is a great find!

[SuperPlay]

Thanks for sharing Chris great find :-)

[Arkhan Asylum]

I totally used this as masturbation fuel a little bit ago.

No shame here.  You all needed to know.

[geise]

This is cool as hell.  Thanks for sharing this!  I miss old Psygnosis and it's devs.

[BigusSchmuck]

About the best Turbo related news I have heard in a long time. Awesome!

[Dicer]

Cool stuff...

[RNSpeed]

Love Psygnosis games, specially Shadow of the beast. Played it a lot on my A1200